Install and uninstall dnsmasq #Dnsmasq #TipsTricks

Install and uninstall dnsmasq.md

Never touch your local /etc/hosts file in OS X again

To setup your computer to work with *.test domains, e.g. project.test, awesome.test and so on, without having to add to your hosts file each time.

Install

brew install dnsmasq

Setup

Create config directory if not created

mkdir -pv $(brew --prefix)/etc/

Setup *.test

echo 'address=/.test/127.0.0.1' >> $(brew --prefix)/etc/dnsmasq.conf

Autostart - now and after reboot

sudo brew services start dnsmasq

Add to resolvers

Create resolver directory

sudo mkdir -v /etc/resolver

Add your nameserver to resolvers

sudo bash -c 'echo "nameserver 127.0.0.1" > /etc/resolver/test'

Uninstall

To remove run the folowing commands in ths sequence.

sudo brew services stop dnsmasq

rm -f /usr/local/etc/dnsmasq.conf

sudo rm -rf /etc/resolver

brew uninstall --force dnsmasq

N.B. never use .dev as a TLD for local dev work. .test is fine though.